Third Party Archive

  • Android 2.2 to feature USB + WiFi tethering as standard

    Android 2.2 to feature USB + WiFi tethering as standard

    Our motherblog, TechCrunch, found out today that the Froyo-flavoured (and bloody fast) Android 2.2 will feature USB and WiFi tethering as standard. This will give users the ability to access their phone's 3G connection by either physically connecting the phone to their laptop external-USB-modem-stylee, or over a temporary WiFi access point beaming out from within the phone's magical inner chamber.

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  • Twitter for Android: the best apps reviewed

    Twitter for Android: the best apps reviewed

    You know what's awesome? Cookie dough ice cream. But when it comes to the smartphone market, the 18-month-old, steadily-growing Android platform is equally wondrous. Sure, Google may have a tiny bit of catching up to do when compared with Apple's market share, but at least Android users are already spoiled with a handful of good Twitter apps. Better yet, Twitter has now thrown in its official app to spice up the competition, so we thought it'd be interesting to put it head-to-head against the third-party clients. Read on to find out if we have a winner.

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    Twitter for Android: the best apps reviewed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 16:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • New developer challenge offers Android devs a trip to TED if they can get people moving

    New developer challenge offers Android devs a trip to TED if they can get people moving

    Obesity sucks. Unfortunately, smart phones generally don’t do much to make the problem any better. Sure, there are plenty of exercise-assistance apps, like RunKeeper, built to make exercising easier and thus more likely to happen — but for the most part, our smartphones help us to move less. Why walk to the computer downstairs, when [...]

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  • Euphonix to join the Avid collective as well

    Euphonix to join the Avid collective as well

    Apparantly not satisfied with only encompassing Digidesign, Avid announced yesterday their planned acquisition of Euphonix. Makers of the System 5 series of audio consoles, converters, and a little more in my price range, control surfaces for audio and video software. There’s nothing in the press release about continuing to offer the System 5 consoles. It rather [...]

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  • Video Chat Coming To The Next iPhone? All Signs Are Pointing To Yes

    Video Chat Coming To The Next iPhone? All Signs Are Pointing To Yes

    As they do with any major new iPhone OS release, people have been tearing apart the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK from the very second it was available. Almost immediately, someone noticed that bits and pieces of iChat had found their way into the new software. By itself, it didn’t really make sense. The iPhone has plenty [...]

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  • Apple Holding Special Event To Preview iPhone OS 4 This Thursday

    Apple Holding Special Event To Preview iPhone OS 4 This Thursday

    Apple has just sent out invites to press inviting them to a special event where they'll "Get a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS". The event, which obviously comes just after the launch of the iPad, will showcase the new features coming with the latest release of the iPhone/iPad operating system, giving developers time to plan for and integrate the new features into their apps. There have been rumors for months that this new update will include the ability for certain third party apps to run in the background.

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  • BlackBerry OS 5.0 upgrade now available for the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630

    BlackBerry OS 5.0 upgrade now available for the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630

    Man, it's a big day for ol' Red when it comes to software updates. All signs are indicating that the near-mythical Android 2.1 update for the Droid is beginning to trickle out right this second, and now they've announced that the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is getting bumped up to OS 5.0.

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  • Windows Phone 7 Gets Another Twitter App: Twikini

    Windows Phone 7 Gets Another Twitter App: Twikini

    A few days ago we wrote about Mel Sampat, a member of the Windows Phone 7 development team who had chosen to leave the team to pursue his own endeavors, part of which included making third-party apps for the very platform he helped make. You might assume that his history with the platform would make [...]

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  • Google: Android Market now serving 30,000 apps

    Google: Android Market now serving 30,000 apps

    At the most recent Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company's partners are now selling over 60,000 Android handsets on a daily basis. With that kind of growth rate, it's no wonder that the size of the Android Market is quickly increasing in its slipstream. While Google doesn't publicly show how many applications there are in Android Market, a Google representative this morning informed me that the application store now serves approximately 30,000 free and paid apps in total.

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  • Adobe releases Photoshop.com Mobile editor for Android developers

    Adobe releases Photoshop.com Mobile editor for Android developers

    Adobe this morning announced that third-party developers now have access to the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android 1.1 editor, allowing them to make it a part of their applications. The news comes four months after the company released Photoshop.com Mobile for Android, enabling users to easily edit and share their photos. That app got an upgrade, too. Amusingly, Adobe also takes a bit of a swing at Apple for not being able to provide such tools to iPhone app developers.

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  • Palm webOS 1.4 SDK released to developers, allows apps to record video

    Palm webOS 1.4 SDK released to developers, allows apps to record video

    It’s a bit different than the “developers get the new firmware first” mentality we’ve grown used to from those other guys, but Palm has now released the SDK for webOS 1.4. The flagship feature of webOS 1.4 (besides Adobe Flash support, which isn’t available just yet) is its new found ability to record video. With [...]

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  • Shock: Sony invites devs to make games for the PS3

    Shock: Sony invites devs to make games for the PS3

    Flash: Sony executive is bullish about the PS3! The Wii—you've heard of it, yes? Years ago, it was hard to find because it was massively popular. You could find one on eBay, but for like $8 million. Nowadays? Not so much. Games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii will sell, sure, but third-party publishers are finding out: Hey, our games aren't selling too well here...

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  • Sony Ericsson starts taking submissions for Android version of PlayNow

    Sony Ericsson starts taking submissions for Android version of PlayNow

    Manufacturers and carriers are showing commendable restraint in avoiding totally bastardized, walled-garden versions of Android on their handsets (for the most part), but they're not avoiding it altogether -- take Sony Ericsson here, for instance. The company has announced that it's expanding the reach of its PlayNow app store to cover Android in concert with its launch of the X10, which presumably means that users will be juggling a minimum of two sources for third-party wares on this thing. Long-term, this kind of needless fragmentation seems like one of the greatest threats to Android's ability to become and remain a heavyweight player in the smartphone ring -- but then again, what do we know? It's not like these guys haven't already figured out how to dominate before with UIQ... ah, wait. Anyhoo, yeah, back to the topic at hand: devs are now invited to submit their Android apps for inclusion in the PlayNow store, so hey, you may as well -- the phone's looking to be a hottie, so it can't hurt to have your stuff featured on there, we figure.

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    Sony Ericsson starts taking submissions for Android version of PlayNow originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid

    Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid

    We've already seen that the Droid is perfectly capable of implementing multitouch gestures in third-party apps, and the most high-profile (if not the most important, period) implementation of that is in a good web browser where non-stop zooming is a way of life -- especially when browsing sites designed for desktops. Dolphin -- which has been kicking around for a couple months in the Market -- has just added multitouch support on the Droid, which automatically makes it an interesting alternative to Android's mediocre (well, mediocre by WebKit standards, anyhow) built-in fare. Follow the break for a video overview -- or better yet, if you're running Android and you've got a couple fingers to spare, just check it out yourself.

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    Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Samsung Forever comes to Rogers, cue ‘it took Forever to launch’ joke

    Samsung Forever comes to Rogers, cue ‘it took Forever to launch’ joke

    Samsung's a manufacturer of many smartphone platforms, and odds are good you can find at least one of 'em you like -- between S60 (for now, anyway), WinMo, and Android, they've pretty much got the major bases covered. Say you're the particularly picky type, though, and you want your full-touch widget experience delivered sans the open operating system for some odd reason. Well, turns out Samsung has that angle figured out perhaps better than any other company out there -- and Rogers is adding yet another one to the lineup this week with the introduction of the Forever with a WQVGA LCD (no AMOLED here, sorry), 3.6Mbps HSDPA, a 2 megapixel camera, and naturally, TouchWiz. Interested parties are welcome to sign on the dotted line to the tune of CAD $79.99 (about $77) on a three-year deal, so... you know, you'd better be darn sure you're not going to have the urge to install any third-party apps designed to simulate bodily noises over the next three dozen months.

    Samsung Forever comes to Rogers, cue 'it took Forever to launch' joke originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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